Dress size rants!

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  • 123im4u2c
    123im4u2c Posts: 63
    I hate shopping for pants!
    I have to try 20 pairs on to find one that fits! They are a PITA!!!!
    They all have different cuts, some run small, and others run large!
    I am 5'2' petite, and it's a nightmare for me! Legs are too long, and in some to short.
    Waist is too tight, or fit perfectly, while the crotch hangs, or the thighs are too tight!
    What's a woman to do? Tailoring is an option, but the money you spend on a good pair
    of pants should exclude extra money for a dry cleaners or tailor! I have begun to prefer looking in
    consignment shops for pant that have been pre worn and also tailored! I find all kinds of brands!
    This is working for me, designer duds are found quite easily! The good news is you save about
    80% as well buying them! I love a good bargain! Ladies remember, Jeans are more forgiving than
    dress pants, so go up a size if need be!
  • megsi474
    megsi474 Posts: 370 Member
    I loathe buying pants. Even though I'm 5'6", many are way too long and since I carry so much fat in my midsection, if the waist fits, the butt and legs are baggy. I'm working on an overall BF% reduction to get rid of the belly and squattin' like a mofo to get a butt that fills out pants.
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    Officially zen about size. I buy the size with the best fit. And then have alternations to make it fit in my shoulders, etc. Everything is better taken in.. letting clothes out is a crap shoot.

    I wear size NYDJ 6, Ralph Lauren Jeans 6 or 8... I wear a small or 4 talbots top, a large Rebecca Taylor. Go figure. Just go for what flatters.
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    How men get a choice from waist size and women just get a random '6, 8, 10' etc
    makes no sense to me.
    women's clothing sizes are different in every single shop whereas the men can never go wrong because all they need to look out for is their waist size!
    Wrong. I have in my closet 4 pairs of pants that all fit me, 31, 32, 33, and 34. My waist is 32" but pants sit at different places on my waist. Jeans at the hip, dress pants higher, and so on.

    Once you are in decent shape and care about how things fit, then it's just as much as a pain in the butt to find clothes. Most men just don't give a crap and it shows.

    And don't even get me started on dress shirts. Shirts have an unstated waist size. Good luck finding a dress shirt that fits my shoulders and doesn't produce a tent of fabric over my belly that makes me look fat.
    I know! Men have a lot more to choose from!
    I know! I can wear: pants, pants, pants, or maybe pants.
    For shirts, I can wear: dress shirts, polos, maybe a T-shirt.

    What a choice!

    this dude gets it
  • southpaw211
    southpaw211 Posts: 385 Member
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    I wish more men wore kilts, myself.
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    THIS. I'm sorry, but men in kilts are smoking hot. Except maybe that guy in Austen Powers.
  • mujimu87
    mujimu87 Posts: 29
    I am UK SIZE 4 (US size 0) and clothes shopping is generally a *****...and I hate having to get clothes for teenagers/even children. I HAVE PYJAMA bottoms age 7/8...crazy world!


    xxx
  • LizaDK914
    LizaDK914 Posts: 54 Member
    I so agree with you! I wanted to buy a nice dress, size L but my boobs didn't fit in, way too tight! Don't they get is that bigger women also got bigger boobs? It felt horrid I had to take a size larger just because of that, around my waist way too loose...

    I have the opposite problem! Most my shirts seem to assume I have gargantuan sized boobs, which I do not. They're not tiny - but neither are they as big as the shirts would like them to be.
  • ClementineGeorg
    ClementineGeorg Posts: 505 Member
    I have a larger bust, so I hate when I don't find dresses that really fit. The dresses in the size that fits my middle section well, don't get closed up. The dresses that fit my bust are larger in the middle section and make me look sloppy and bigger than I am.
    It's quite annoying, because in function of the style of the dress, I wear way different sizes.
    And when buying formal attire, I hate when I ask for a size just to find out is the wrong one.
  • rhinesb
    rhinesb Posts: 204 Member

    And don't get me started on button down blouses! I have to go two or three sizes up just to cover my boobs without having the buttons strain and possibly pop open.

    haahaa I have ALWAYS had this problem. If I'm a large I have to get an extra large to accommodate boobs. If I get small enough to wear a medium I have to buy a large to AGAIN accommodate boobs.
  • rhinesb
    rhinesb Posts: 204 Member

    And don't even get me started on dress shirts. Shirts have an unstated waist size. Good luck finding a dress shirt that fits my shoulders and doesn't produce a tent of fabric over my belly that makes me look fat.

    My poor husband has a thick neck and large shoulders. To get a dress shirt that doesn't strangle him and fit his shoulders he has to get it a larger size that just looks ridiculous.
  • seliinac
    seliinac Posts: 336 Member
    While this is sort of true, we also have to worry about inseam length, and more importantly, whether or not said pants can fit us in the legs and butt area. I mean, I realize most guys don't like to work legs, but c'mon....why punish the ones who do? Jeans/pants shopping is very frustrating. Ladies who have an issue with a dress have an easy solution; go get it altered. How many tailors will alter jeans? Really.

    All tailors will alter jeans. Really.

    However, not arguing that you guys have some issues with sizing, too.

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